Improvement in reticule wicker-baskets



JOSEPH VENET.

improvement in Reticule W'ickerfBaskets.

N0.125,705, PatenredApri|16,1372.

Witnesses: lnventor:

'UNiTED STATES PATENT (DEEIcE.

JOSEPH VENET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT lN RETICULE WICKER-BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,706, dated April16, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in IteticuleWicker-Baskets, invented by JOSEPH VENET, of the city, county, and Stateof New York.

The object ofmy invention is to enable reticule wicker-baskets, (andthose of similar form) to be packed into a small convenient space fortransportation and storage, it beingwell known that reticule basketswhich are small at their mouths cannot be placed one within another asbaskets of conical and other form can. Hence reticule baskets inquantity, occupying a large space in transportation, render freightexpensive and add to the mercantile expense of the basket. To rectifythis inconvenience, and save eXtra freightage, I have conceived the ideaof constructing wicker reticule baskets, or those of smaller mouth thanbody, in sections, either centrally, longitudinally or transversely, asthe case may require, in such manner that the sections can be easilypacked one within the other, occupying a small space duringtransportation, and easily and readily put together when required foruse in which consists the nature of my invention, as I will furtherexplain by reference to the accompanying drawings, of Whichsent thebasket in sections.

v Figure l is a perspective view of a retieule wicker-basket, thesections being united and the basket ready for use. Figs. 2 and 3 repre-Fig. 4, the sections placed one within the other for transportation; andFig. 5, the cover of the basket.

In the said drawing, A and B are sections,

dividing the body of the basket longitudinally into two parts, thesections being provided with Y In testimony whereof I have hereunto setinysignature this 15th day of February, 1872.

JOSEPH VENET.

Witnesses ARTHUR NEILL, WM. BARKEE.

